Most iPhone users know that their camera can scan QR codes with ease. What many don’t know is that your iPhone also has a dedicated QR code scanning app preinstalled. Let’s go over how to find and use ...

A longtime consulting engineer who now works for the federal government saw our discussion of mnemonics for remembering the resistor color code. He shares one he learned in college. It goes “Budweiser ...

A GUI is essentially the "face" of your software. It’s the visual layer that allows us mere mortals to interact with a computer using buttons, menus, and icons rather than typing cryptic commands into ...

A 1.98-square-micrometer QR code, etched into ceramic thin film and verified by Guinness, showcases a new approach to ultra-dense, long-term data storage. How small can a QR code actually be?

In today’s edition of the Power On newsletter, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman shared a number of new details about Apple’s upcoming software release: iOS 27. The company is aiming to ‘tidy’ its codebase, ...

On Monday, Anthropic announced a new tool called Cowork, designed as a more accessible version of Claude Code. Built into the Claude Desktop app, the new tool lets users designate a specific folder ...

QR codes are everywhere—from restaurant menus and payment links to Wi-Fi credentials and app downloads. If you’re using an Android device, scanning a QR code is quick and easy, and in most cases, you ...

PythoC lets you use Python as a C code generator, but with more features and flexibility than Cython provides. Here’s a first look at the new C code generator for Python. Python and C share more than ...

The world of car diagnostics has changed a lot over the last 50 years. Back in the '70s and earlier, a mechanic's most valuable diagnostic tools were usually their eyes and ears. You could figure out ...

Back in July, Google widely introduced a redesign of the Android QR code scanner, but then rolled it back. The updated interface is now starting to reappear. This is the QR code scanner available from ...